January 2009
13 posts
OpenCourseWare Startup
Here’s a business opportunity for anyone looking for an idea. Many universities are making free courses available online via a movement called OpenCourseWare. The course materials being offered for free online from many of the leading academic institutions of the world is an amazing data asset. Unfortunately, there’s not much community services (blogs, wikis, forums, etc) baked into...
Bing Gordon foresees games replacing textbooks at... →
Bing Gordon, a newly minted partner at Kleiner Perkins and ex-EA Creative Officer, said “Kids are learning to read for the first time while playing video games.”
This quote (and accompanying article) totally reminds me of the game-like Primer in The Diamond Age, with interactive actors and gameplay dynamics abound. I can see how this could be the future of education.
What was your first job?
The internet decided that today we should all talk about our first job, so here goes. To be honest, I don’t remember which came first, but it was one of the following two jobs:
Caddying at the local country club
A garden weeding service I started. I posted fliers around the neighborhood got people to hire me to do weeding at an hourly rate.
If the money were a bit better, I...
Is Google Healthy?
Google released Q4 financials this week, and the general response in the media has been enthusiastic. They didn’t knock the ball out of the park, but they beat street estimates. Alley Insider has a concise summary of the key financial details:
—Net revenue: $4.2 billion vs. estimates of $4.18 billion. —Non-GAAP EPS $5.10 vs. $4.96 per share. —Google sites revenue up 22%...
Twitter Challenge
msg:
Twitter presents their audience with a challenge - if you don’t like what we’ve done, you have every means to make it better for free, so don’t complain, do something.
Originally posted as a comment by gbattle on betaworks using Disqus.
For nearly every other company, the comsumers’ response to the “Twitter Challenge” is to give up, walk away, and never think twice. Other...
“Don’t mark your email urgent. Urgent to you is not urgent to me.”
– Seth’s Blog: How to send a personal email
Seth Godin wrote this quote in a post yesterday, and it’s too true. The “urgent” flag is one of the worst features Microsoft has implemented (up there in the Hall of Shame with Clippy). Nearly all the email I have received marked as...
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“At the debate among the six candidates vying to lead the Republican National...”
– NYTimes: Missing the Forest for the Tweets
My evil plan is working! I’ve been adding to the Twitter hype all along just to screw with Republicans priorities ;)
Bowie’s Live at Santa Monica (1972) album...